Elon Musk waded into another diplomatic bust-up last week. This time it was with the Polish foreign minister over how Starlink is financed in Ukraine. “Be quiet, small man,” the truculent billionaire told Radosław Sikorski on X, in another controversy that has fanned the flames in EU-US relations. The quarrel has raised questions about Europe’s reliance on the company’s low-orbit satellites for internet communication and the shape of Starlink’s business in Europe. Ireland plays a role in that. Tucked away at an address on Dublin’s Baggot St is the Irish-registered entity of SpaceX’s Starlink, the internet satellite provider led by…

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